We have finished up our fifth year of doing the Moss Motoring Challenge amassing 265 points out of the 288 possible. I’m fairly sure that that total will land us in the 50 Runners-Up category where we have been 3 of the previous 4 years. The first couple of years we use to send in a CD with all of the pictures and I’d add a little Read Me First file with some notes on some of the challenge adventures on it. Now that we just post the photos online, I guess I’ll have to create a blog post…
Favorite Photo
One-Lane Bridge: Old Hoggard Mill Bridge over the Ichawaynochaway Creek
One Lane Bridge
Favorite Point Story
Photo with 5+ Challengers :Thank you Beth Wallace for putting the 5 Challenger event together and thank you Beth Wallace for the image, because both Donna and I are in the 5 Challenger Photo I don’t have my own image, so I cribbed one from your FB post to use on the Trello Board. (2/24/18)
Photo with 5+ Challengers! The first 4 cars were parked in a tight group of spots right up front, but there wasn’t another one open near us for the last arrival, so we weren’t sure what to do when they got there. Until someone wondered out loud what the most of the rest of us were thinking, “Maybe we could line our cars up right on the wide sidewalk entrance way.” Then someone else piped in with that eternal truism, “It is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission.” A plan was born. When car #5 arrived we briefed them on the plan, and we all backed into position.
Least Favorite Point
Astrological Signs 01: Aries Lane in Crystal Lake Mobile Home Park in Myrtle Beach, SC. (3/31/2018)
Astrological Signs – Aries This year they wanted a photo of a sign with either the name or symbol of all 12 astrological signs. Donna found a subdivision near Myrtle Beach that had street names of 11 of the 12. While it made easy pickings, none of them we especially photogenic, so we slowly tried to replace as many as we could. This is one of the 4 we ended up having to use.
Easiest Point
Bicycle Built for Two with Riders: As usual with us we leave the easy ones and the ones we know we got in the bag, until the very end. The bicycle built for two was going to be easy as we have one parked right next to the Miata in the garage. We ride at least once a week and it was just a matter of putting the two vehicles and the two people together. While the Miata is longer than the bike, the wheelbases are very similar. (12/3/18)
Bicycle Built for Two with Riders For a lot of people this would be hard, but we own a tandem, it sits right next to the Miata in the garage, so all we had to do was roll them both outside.
Hardest Point
Roller Derby Rink: On the way home from Hendersonville, North Carolina on Friday after we had spent Thanksgiving with my sister and her husband, we detoured through Spartanburg, SC to check on a skating rink that hosts roller derby. Sure enough, there was a sign out front of Skate Palace advertising a match from back in October. Unfortunately we were in the Mini not the Miata, so we vowed to drive the 100 miles one-way back there the following day. But Saturday was a cold, miserable, and rainy. Not a nice day for a drive, even with the top up. We waited until today to make the trip. When we got there, the two people you see on the left were changing the sign to read Craft Fair Today (see the ladder…) and fortunately for us they had finished only one side. The other side still had the roller derby announcement on it. Pheew! (11/25/18)
Roller Derby Rink We spent countless hours on the internet researching this and while we actually live around 100 miles near to about 4 Roller Derby teams, every rink we did visit there was no external sign verifying that Roller Derby went on inside. When finally found one and we almost missed our chance.
Regrets
Are the ones we didn’t get, including the two Moss Warehouses. We are 400 miles away from the east coast one in Virginia, but we never had any reason to get anywhere close to that far north. We were 500 miles from the west coast warehouse on our our already 5 week week trip to Lake Tahoe, but that would have added at least an additional week of driving.